Kitchen Pastry Intern

Waldorf Astoria Amsterdam; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 7,600 - 10,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship 800 €/mo

GO Hilton program discount

50% discount on Food & Beverage

Discounts on Hilton products & Par

Cross training

Job summary

Waldorf Astoria Amsterdam is seeking a Kitchen Pastry Intern to support the pastry team in delivering high-quality desserts and pastries. You will assist with daily prep, maintain cleanliness, and help create innovative afternoon tea offerings to delight guests.

The role emphasizes teamwork, adherence to standards, and readiness to work under busy conditions in a luxury hotel environment.

Qualifications

• Good working knowledge of fundamentals of the broiler, sauté, fry, roast and other cooking methods.
• Good working knowledge of accepted standards of sanitation.
• Knowledge of operating kitchen equipment (stoves, ovens, steamers, etc).
• Basic mathematical skills to understand recipes, measurements and portions sizes.

Responsibilities

• Prepares all food items according to standard recipes or as directed, ensuring consistency of product.
• Checks and controls proper storage of products, especially fresh produce, for quality and portion control.
• Keeps refrigeration, storage and work areas clean to comply with Health Department regulations.
• Ensures equipment in working areas is clean and in proper working condition.
• Inspects and selects fresh ingredients and reads recipes to prepare items.
• Supports operational departments and anticipates their needs.
• Think creatively to present items in an innovative way to impress guests.
• Participate in creating new afternoon tea.

Skills

English communication

Math skills

Team collaboration

Job description

Welcome to the timeless luxury world of Waldorf Astoria

Around the globe, Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts reflects the culture and history of their timeless locations, as well as fresh, modern expressions of Waldorf Astoria's rich legacy. Waldorf Astoria provides guests the exceptional environment and the personalized attention of Sincerely Elegant Service that creates a singular experience. If you understand the value of personalized attention and know how craft unexpected moments with a rich level of customer service, you may just be the Intern we are looking for. Once you enter the marvelous world of Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts, you are part of our promise to deliver Guests a single rich experience at every extraordinary place they visit.

Start date : from January 2026

Your mission as Kitchen Pastry Intern

As a Pastry Trainee for the Waldorf Astoria Amsterdam, you will be responsible for ensuring consistent quality of customer service is provided to the guests in accordance with the Waldorf Astoria True Service Standards. To provide guests with a memorable stay experience that is personalized to their needs, throughout their stay at the hotel by ensuring that the team is responding efficiently to their enquiries and advising them of the amenities and benefits offered by the hotel. Supports team members on a daily basis with any queries and issues that may arise, engages with them to ensure well-being and satisfaction. Has the responsibility to assist the management to drive and deliver positive results.

Essential Functions

• Prepares all food items according to standard recipes or, as otherwise specified by supervisor, to ensure consistency of product to the guest; requires transportation of heavy food products.
• Checks and controls the proper storage of product, especially on all fresh produce, checking on portion control, to maintain quality product.
• Keeps all refrigeration, storage, and working areas clean, working condition in order to comply with Health Department regulations.
• Ensures that all equipment in working areas is clean and in proper working condition to comply with Health Department regulations.
• Visually inspects, selects and uses only the freshest fruits, vegetables, and other food products of the highest standard in the preparation of all menu items. Reads and employs math skills for following recipes. Prepares requisition for supplies and food items for production in workstation.
• Support the operational departments. When needed, anticipate their needs.
• Think out of the box, see difficulties as challenges and find solutions, try to find an innovative and different way to present something, so the other team members as well as the guests will be impressed, come up with new ideas.
• Participate in creating new afternoon tea.

Supportive Function

In addition to performance of the essential functions, this position may be required to perform a combination of the following supportive functions, with the percentage of time performing each function to be solely determined by the supervisor based upon the particular requirements of the company.

• Performs any general cleaning tasks using standard hotel cleaning products as assigned by supervisor
• Performs other duties as requested, such as moving supplies and equipment, cleaning up unexpected spills.
• Update HACCP files allocated

Specific job knowledge, skill and ability

• Good working knowledge of the fundamentals of the broiler, sauté, fry, roast and other cooking methods.
• Good working knowledge of accepted standards of sanitation
• Knowledge of operating all kitchen equipment, i.e., stoves, ovens, steamers, etc.
• Basic mathematical skills necessary to understand recipes, measurements, requisition amounts and portion sizes.
• Ability to work under pressure and deal with stressful situations during busy periods.
• Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, with guests and employees, some of whom will require high levels of patience, tact, and diplomacy to defuse anger and to collect accurate information and to resolve problems.
• Sufficient manual dexterity of hand in order to use all kitchen equipment, i.e., knives, spoons, spatulas, tongs, slices, etc.
• Ability to grasp, lift and/or carry, or otherwise, move goods weighing a maximum of 100 lbs. on continuous schedule.
• Ability to stand and to work continuously in confined spaces.
• Ability to perform duties within extreme temperature ranges.

What benefits will I receive?

• Internship is paid 800 euros monthly
• As an employee you will become a member of the GO Hilton program, which provides reduced room rates in all our hotels WORLDWIDE, which means you can choose out of over 8,000 properties in more than 100 countries and all this not only for yourself but off course to share with your friends and family as well.
• 50% discount on Food & Beverage
• Discounts on products and services offered by Hilton Worldwide and its partners, for example Guerlain
• Cross training
• Yearly departmental team outing
• Hilton University offers more than 2500 e-learnings